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Barrow Blotter

published Thursday, August 9, 2012

DRUGS SEIZED: On July 31, a deputy was patrolling on Bethlehem Road near Statham about 12:44 p.m. when he saw a vehicle with dark tinted windows and a temporary tag headed toward Georgia Highway 316.

The deputy followed and the car, which pulled over, and the driver exited and walked back to the deputy waving his hands in the air. The man, identified later as Robert Lewis Mayweather Jr., was told to get back inside his car and he eventually did.

The officer then walked up to the car, but Mayweather again exited and this time he ran across both lanes of the highway toward the city limits of Statham. The suspect went into some woods and the officer lost sight of him, so he called for the K-9 unit.

Several more deputies arrived, along with police from Winder and Statham, the Georgia State Patrol, and deputies with Oconee County. They searched the area without finding Mayweather.

The deputy then had the suspect’s vehicle towed and an inventory was conducted in which they found several documents with Mayweather’s name. Also in the center console, the deputy found some marijuana in a bag and an open container of alcohol.

About 4:30 p.m., the deputy was alerted to a traffic stop near McCarty Road, where Mayweather had been identified as a passenger.

Mayweather was charged with obstruction, simple possession of marijuana, driving while his license suspended, an open container violation, window tint violation, failure to yield while entering a roadway, reckless conduct and affixing a tag with intent to misrepresent a vehicle.

TPO VIOLATION: On July 31, a deputy was dispatched to a home outside Winder where a man said a woman violated a temporary protection order by coming to his home.

The 48-year-old woman drove up and hollered out her window at him. Then she spun recklessly out of the yard.

DOG FOUND: On July 31, a deputy was dispatched to meet with a woman on Harmony Grove Church Road, Auburn, who had reported her Boston Terrier missing on July 4. She said the dog ran away that day after being scared out of the yard by people exploding firecrackers.

She called to report the dog has been found on Walden Road in Winder.

Other Barrow County incidents reports were unavailable Thursday due to a technical problem that was being examined at the sheriff’s office.